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FASHION- THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY

LOOKING LIKE A MILLION

The costliest dress ever made was priced at 1 million pound- a high waisted and embroidered white muslin evening gown decorated with 516 diamonds. An armoured car took the makers, Schiaparelli, to a fashion show at the Ritz Paris in 1977. Shoes extravagant enough to match it could not be found, so the model wore it barefoot. The dress was eventually bought for an Arab princess whose identity has not been revealed: and according to the makers, she still has it.

FEATHER- FOOTED

Feather-light shoes created by New York designer Yanturni in the 1920s took up to three years to make and he refused even to make a start on a year a pair without a $1000 deposit. He made plaster casts of clients? feet and molded the shoes around the contours.
Yanturni made 300 pairs for the Spanish- American hostess Rita de Acosta Lydig. Some were made with 12th- century velvet, some of lace appliqué, others of brocade or gold and silver metal tissue. Mrs. Lydig collected violins so that Yanturni could use the delicate wood to make his shoe-trees. Designer Cecil Beaton once claimed that a Yanturni shoe, complete with its tree, weighed no more than an ostrich feather.

THE TROUSER REVOLUTION

Only at the start of the 19th century did fashion- conscious men begin wearing trousers in preference to knee- breeches. Tsar Alexander I of Russia regarded trousers as subversive, probably because they were worn by extremists of the French Revolution. In 1807, Alexander ordered his troops to stop all carriages- and any man inside wearing trousers had them instantly cut off at the knee.

FRAGRANT THOUGHT

French actress Leslile Caron, while a small girl, had the idea of boiling her underclothes in a tub of perfume to give them lasting fragrance. It worked a treat Leslie; however, had no need to brother about the economic impracticability of her idea. The tubful of scent cost her nothing ? her family owned the perfume house of Caron

COVER GIRL

A Dutch model named Withelmnia still holds still holds the world record for appearances on the covers of the world?s top fashion magazines- 250 covers between 1960 and 1967, when she retired. That is nearly twice the combined total amassed by the runners-up, British models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. Despite the exposure, Withminia?s name reminded almost unknown to the general public.

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